UK Rail and Health & Safety Training

Having appropriately skilled staff is paramount in a fast-moving, safety-conscious rail industry. We have the expertise and flexibility to provide core and specialist training for track safety and occupational health and safety.

We have two dedicated and accessible facilities – in Surrey just outside of London (Epsom) and the Midlands (Derby) – high quality training is delivered in a professional learning environment. Please note that our Epsom location has free onsite parking facilities. Derby also has parking facilities but these are bookable and limited. In addition to providing track safety, DC electrification and health & safety training, a team of licensed trainers also offers the expertise to design bespoke courses which satisfy individual customer requirements.

Click on the links below to download the relevant documents.

Our booking system works on a first come first served basis, we do not reserve or hold places.

We have an available Trainer to deliver health & safety courses for your business needs.

We can deliver the following courses:

Emergency First Aid including Electrical Accidents - required for HV, Level C & D courses
Manual Handling
Fire Warden

These are all half day courses.

You have the option to combine any two of the above courses into one full day of training.

Please email [email protected] for further information.

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Electronic Logbooks

Effective from the 6th December 2025, recording the use of track safety competence in the Sentinel Electronic Logbook is mandatory, and paper logbooks are withdrawn.
This applies to PTS, COSS & SW.

There will be a grace period in accepting paper logbook evidence until 6th December 2027, as paper entries recorded before 06/12/2025 can still be accepted.
However, paper entries recorded after 06/12/2025, cannot be accepted and instead must be on the Sentinel Electronic Logbook.
Learners will be turned away from their Recertification training if they do not meet these requirements.

Sentinel Electronic Logbook Requirements:

Records of competence in the Electronic Logbook must be of a ‘Trackside’ location to be acceptable.
COSS’s must ensure to record the competence being used at the time of swiping in to ensure the electronic logbook is updated.

Increase in Entries / Evidence:

Logbook entries/evidence for recertification courses are increasing from x4 to x8 (for PTS & SW) and from x4 to x10 (for COSS) within 24 months. However, to facilitate this transition, the below will apply.
- From Dec 2025 to Dec 2026, the minimum x4 entries within 24 months will remain acceptable.
- From 6th December 2026, the x4 entries (for PTS & SW) and x5 entries (for COSS) within 12 months will be mandatory.

Bookings

To book a Network Rail course, a booking form must be completed and signed by the primary sponsor. A purchase order number must be quoted on the booking form, a copy of a signed purchase order form is optional but must state the following "payment will be made within 30 days of receipt of invoice".

If your company have not previously booked with us before your first three bookings will need to be paid for by debit/credit card, once you have been put on the Atkins system as a client you will be given the option to use purchase orders for future bookings. (We can check our database if you are not sure if your company have booked with us before).

Payment by debit/credit card is available; there is a section at the bottom of the booking form to be completed.

The information given below the red dotted line on the booking form has been designed to be excluded from printed and PDF versions, please send the signed PDF copy as well as the Excel sheet for debit/credit card payments.

If you do not wish to put the debit/credit card details on the form please provide the card holder's name and registered address in the section at the bottom of the booking form or within section 'Invoice company name/address' and provide a contact number we can reach the card holder on so we can call to take payment details over the phone.

We will only accept payment from delegate’s for Health and Safety courses, i.e. Emergency First Aid. Where the delegate is paying for the Health and Safety course by debit/credit card we must receive the following information by email with the booking form to be able to process the booking, this information should be sent within the email if not on the booking form:

Delegate’s name
Billing address (Where card is registered)
Contact number
Email address
Course name

Please note: Delegate places are not confirmed, and Joining Instructions will not be issued until we have received the completed, signed booking form from the sponsor and payment has been taken (purchase order or credit/debit card payment).

Please send completed booking forms to [email protected].

Please allow up to 48 hours for bookings to be processed.

The training team process bookings and queries Monday to Friday from 08:30 to 14:30.

Course profiles: Standard Network Rail courses

Course profiles: Bespoke Network Rail courses

Course profiles: Health & safety courses

Contact information

Atkins Training Centre
One Croydon
12-16 Addiscombe Road
Croydon
Surrey
CR0 0XT
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 20 7121 2100
Email: [email protected]

UK Rail and Health & Safety Training

Effective from the 6th December 2025, recording the use of track safety competence in the Sentinel Electronic Logbook is mandatory, and paper logbooks are withdrawn. This applies to PTS, COSS & SW.

Sentinel Electronic Logbook Requirements:

Increase in Entries / Evidence:

Effective from the 6th December 2025, recording the use of track safety competence in the Sentinel Electronic Logbook is mandatory, and paper logbooks are withdrawn.
This applies to PTS, COSS & SW.